Girl, in love with newspaper man, who is disapproved by father, returns home after several years of travel to find father, a widower, married, much to her displeasure. They are invited to an entertainment in hotel on top of mountain, where someone shoots the father. Daughter is held on murder charge. A rejected suitor testifies he saw daughter with revolver, but newspaper man discovers revolvers in rejected suitor's room and latter also is arrested, being placed on trial with daughter. Rejected suitor is acquitted, but daughter sentenced to death. Then the father, wearing heavy beard and tanned, appears on the scene, informing them that he is not the dead man whom they supposed and daughter is freed to go to the one whom she loves.